All countries that border the Necropolis have temples along the border, where warriors train in the altered, modern version of Okudo in order to fight the wraiths that try to leave and bring destruction to the world
Opens an alternative source of Chi once your own personal reserves are depleted. When infused, it is the basis of a number of ranged techniques as well.
Chakras must be carefully manipulated, opening and closing in precise orders, with multiple different types of Chi being infused into each in different proportions.
Incantations, hand signs, and the like are used, but not universally - they are all ways to guide your concentration and focus your will in order to more precisely control your Chakra and direct the flow of Chi.
- Kameko, a no-talent loser who spends endless hours practicing every one of the few techniques she can get the hang of. Works five times as hard as Tsuchito for a fifth of the results.
However, every technique she knows, she knows every contour of, ingrained into her mind and body through thousands of repetitions. Unexpectedly, Tsuchito's equal.
The character has been trained in Okudo but does literally NOTHING in the proper taught methods. Every technique they use is some roundabout unconventional setup they essentially taught themself.
All of their Okudo techniques are like. Infusing their Chakras with weird Chi combinations, or using Chi in methods most people wouldn't even think to try
Isami is fucking thrilled to just keep tinkering with new Okudo techniques- they don't care about winning fights, they just want to make stuff, it's all so cool.
...if we're doing Naruto comparisons still, I think I somehow made "what if Orochimaru was just a wacky side character from the start instead of ever being a villain".
Also, Isami is definitely genderfluid- one of the many, many techniques they invented lets them switch between male and female forms, which they do like other people change clothing.
Alternately, Rookie-kun keeps trying to look at Isami's research notes to see cool new stuff and refuses to believe that "brand new technique" doesn't necessarily mean "super cool or useful technique".
tl;dr The idea of these two being disaster nerds together is strong, because they both throw tons of shit at the wall to see what (if anything) sticks. : D
The key difference is that Isami is doing it on purpose because fuck yes, magic martial arts science, whereas Hideyoshi seems to be doing it because he genuinely thinks he's doing it right.
Hideyoshi is ABSOLUTELY doing it because he thinks he's either stumbled on secret techniques no one has even THOUGHT about doing or because he is literally throwing out the first combination of Chakra + Chi to come to mind
I already played a socially oblivious genius who loved their field in Synblade, so I think that Isami is a socially skilled genius who loves their field.
it is EXTREMELY difficult to find any writings on them or any teachers willing to teach them, because the world has stamped most of them out after the okudo war
using ordinary methods to learn ordinary techniques, compensating for a lack of natural talent by never taking breaks and getting every inch she can out of every technique she can learn
sixfive in totalsevensix types;"
OH NO""It never even OCCURRED to me that someone would use a fire skin technique to set themselves on fire"
"SKY+HEART FLYING BY BLOWING REALLY HARD TECHNIQUE"
"Fascinating"
That's ProgressTsuchitoTSUKITO I was spelling it wrong oops